Welcome thread: what should this place help with first?
Use this thread to test replies and to capture what the site needs next: profile browsing, useful treatment material, safer messaging, or better discussion categories.
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Thread quality and learning pages first. The member browsing works better when the conversations feel active.
Please keep the dating angle visible without making it feel like swiping.
Support material should link back to real member posts. That makes it feel less clinical.
@Camila totally agree — the clinical stuff makes me shut down fast. I'd actually read a tips page if it quoted someone like @Riah saying how they handled telling a date, or what shirt fabric trick someone swore by in a thread. Makes it feel like advice from a friend who's been there, not a pamphlet.
Also seconding @Riah on dating — not swiping, just... existing in that space without the panic. I've ghosted apps before because I couldn't imagine explaining my hand sweat before a first coffee. A tag or section for that would've kept me from just giving up.
@Tessa's point about active conversations feels right too. I lurk way less when threads are moving and I can see someone my age actually replying. Maybe new member browsing could surface people who've posted recently in topics you care about? I'd actually message someone if I saw we both were sweating through lab notebooks or whatever.